Bugatti

The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse is the world’s fastest – and most expensive – open-topped car. At the heart of this machine, which is priced from a cool £1.4m plus taxes, lies the same 8.0-litre W16 engine, complete with four turbochargers, that can be found in the closed-top Super Sport version of the […]

The Bugatti Veyron’s birth was not an easy one, that it came to be because one day Volkswagen tsar Ferdinand Piech had a dream: to provide the world with a car that had 1000bhp, cost one million euros and could do over 400km/h (250mph). To begin with the brief seemed impossible but in Piech’s mind, […]

Even if he only put 2500 miles on it since he joined the club. Tom Hartley has been a luxury and performance car dealer for forty years, and his son, Carl continues the family business. That allows him not only to have access to all the cars you can think of, but also afford to […]

That prototype no longer survives in that configuration, so – as The Old Motor wrote this week – Hevec Classic Cars in the Netherlands decided to build a replica of the Royale prototype, which it recently completed. As it turns out, when Ettore Bugatti went to build the Royale, he bodied the prototype with a […]

The cars I throw in for free since something has to hold the engines in.” And there’s no doubt Ferrari put all his heart and soul into making beautiful cars to hold those engines, but then again, he did need something worthy to frame the true masterpiece under the hood. Enzo Ferrari once said, “I […]

Your chances of driving the real Vision GT are essentially zero (even compared with the 500 Chirons that Bugatti plans to make), but at least you can hear it roar. It sounds as angry as it looks. The Bugatti Vision Gran Turismo was designed for a video game, but Bugatti built a real-life working example. […]